I had both breasts removed because of a breast cancer diagnosis in 2009. A couple years later my regular doc hired a new nurse. After about the tenth time she asked me when I had my last mammogram I raised hell with them. No, medical personnel do not always make appropriate notes or read the ones that are there. I don't have an issue having letting a doctor and staff that I am seeing for the first time know that my body has been surgically altered but I do think there could/should be a way to flag records to draw attention to things so that they aren't going on assumption.
I'm your huckleberry.
